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Embedding Sustainability Justice in Greek Secondary Curricula through the DeCoRe Plus Methodology

Authors :
Georgios Vouzaxakis
Vassilios Makrakis
Nelly Kostoulas-Makrakis
Source :
Knowledge, Vol 3, Iss 4, Pp 600-609 (2023)
Publication Year :
2023
Publisher :
MDPI AG, 2023.

Abstract

This paper describes the processes of embedding Sustainability Justice in secondary education curricula for economic courses in Greece applying the DeCoRe plus methodology and participatory action research. These processes resulted in a reconstructed curriculum that was implemented by nine teachers teaching courses in economics. Sustainability justice emphasizes the ethics and praxis of education for sustainability and requires an understanding of the curriculum as a process and praxis and teaching as an ethical and political praxis. The implementation of the diagnostic evaluation of DeCoRe plus showed that economics teachers in Greece select more behavioral than constructive-emancipatory teaching approaches. On the other hand, the implementation of the reconstructed curriculum units in their courses using the DeCoRe plus methodology revealed a shift from instructive to constructivist and emancipatory teaching and learning approaches. Teachers by the great majority declared the political and ethical perspective of teaching and seeing curriculum as a living text that can always be under the process of deconstruction, construction, and reconstruction.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
26739585
Volume :
3
Issue :
4
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Knowledge
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.582204939abb4028a6727140de59dfd4
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/knowledge3040037